Birsa Institute of Technology Sindri

Birsa Institute of Technology Sindri
Motto	Niyataṃ kuru karmatvam (Sanskrit)
Motto in English	Perform your duties daily, for action is superior to inaction.
Type	Public
Established	1949 ; 75 years ago
Director	Pankaj Rai
Location	Sindri, Jharkhand, India
Campus	Suburban, Area = (450 Acres)
Affiliations	Jharkhand University of Technology
Website	www.bitsindri.ac.in

Birsa Institute of Technology Sindri (BIT Sindri), is an affiliated Government engineering college in Sindri, Jharkhand, India. Established in 1949, BIT Sindri is one of the oldest engineering and technological institute in India.BIT Sindri emerged as rank 1 in the East Zone and 9th in engineering colleges of the country in the Internshala Annual College Ranking 2023.

History

BIT, Sindri was started as College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering in 1949 at Patna. After one year it was shifted to Sindri on 17th November 1950 and thus BIT Sindri was born with a Principal, three Professors and sixty Students in a simple ceremony with a cup of tea on the dining table. The institute grew and flourished rapidly during the early days under the dynamic leadership of Prof. D.L.Deshpande, the then Director[1950-61], who is regarded as the architect of the institute. BIT Sindri was previously known as Bihar Institute of Technology, Sindri and was affiliated to Ranchi University. Later on BIT Sindri has become the affiliated engineering college of Vinoba Bhave University, Hazaribag and hence the degree has been awarded from Vinoba Bhave University, Hazaribag.And from 2018 batch degree has been awarded from Jharkhand University of Technology Ranchi. The institute is located at a distance of 28 kms from Dhanbad railway station linked by rail as well as road. It has a sprawling campus of about 450 acres of land near the eastern bank of river Damodar. There are 32 hostels in the campus, separate hostels for boys and girls, catering the residential requirements of around 3000 undergraduate, postgraduate and research students. The institute is fully residential for students as well as teaching and non-teaching staff. The institute is controlled administratively by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of Jharkhand, Ranchi and academically it is affiliated to Vinoba Bhave University, Hazaribag for conducting examinations and awarding degrees. All courses are approved by All India Council of Technical Education and most of the undergraduate programs are accredited by the National Board of Accreditation, New Delhi. The main aim of the institute is to cater to the needs of the nation for technological manpower development and research programs comparable to the best of the world. The college today offers B.Tech courses in 10 disciplines of engineering namely Mechanical, Electrical, Metallurgy, Production, Chemical, Electronics & Communications, Civil, Mining, Computer Science, Information technology, having NBA accreditation. The college possesses world class amenities which include multimedia auditoriums, seminar rooms, a state of-the art well-stocked rich E-library, well-equipped modern laboratories and campus wide network. The wide range of activities on campus, fully residential hostels, good sports facilities and never dying zeal of staffs and students for pursuit of excellence provides a pleasant and intellectually stimulating, proactive, conductive environment to students to feed their curiosities / interest and help them to prepare for the professional, academic and social life.

It was shifted to its permanent campus at Sindri in Dhanbad District a year later, where it was renamed as Bihar Institute of Technology, Sindri.  After reorganisation of Patna University and establishment of Ranchi University in 1960, it was affiliated to Ranchi University. BIT Sindri was later affiliated to Vinoba Bhave University after establishment of Vinoba Bhave University at Hazaribagh in September 1992.  Currently, it is affiliated to Jharkhand University of Technology.^[1] With the partition of Bihar in 2000, BIT Sindri was named Birsa Institute of Technology, but later decided to be referred only as BIT Sindri because of historical importance of its name.^[2]

Academics

The institute continued to be affiliated with Vinoba Bhave University until 2017. From 2018 onwards, the institute has been affiliated with the Jharkhand University of Technology (JUT), Ranchi, the foundations of which were laid down by the former Hon'ble president of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee. All courses are approved by the All India Council of Technical Education.^[1] The institute currently conducts graduate and postgraduate courses in ten disciplines of engineering which are supported by three departments of natural sciences, one department each of earth sciences and humanities.

Currently, postgraduate students are admitted to the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Electrical Engineering only. Admission to undergraduate courses were earlier based on ranks in Jharkhand Engineering Entrance Competitive Exam(JEECE), conducted by Jharkhand Combined Entrance Competitive Examination(JCECE) Board. The JCECEB announced in April 2019 that admissions to the institute shall be based on scores in JEE-Main, a national level engineering entrance examination conducted by the National Testing Agency or NTA.

BIT Sindri is particularly known for its core engineering departments viz. Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and an appreciable number of students from these departments clear the coveted Indian Engineering Services exam, conducted by Union Public Service Commission.

Campus

The Institute campus spreads over an area of 450 acres of land, located near the eastern bank of Damodar River.^[1] The campus is fully residential, both for faculty as well as the students.

Students are housed in a total of 27 Hostels for both Undergraduate and Post-Graduate Programs. Construction for newer hostels is underway too. Much of the work of the construction has been completed and the campus now has new infrastructure and new facilities.^{[citation needed]}

Alumni

Notable alumni include:

Subodh Das - Material scientist, CEO of Phinix LLC, USA
Bidhu Jha - Member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for Radisson
Subodha Kumar - Paul R. Anderson Distinguished Chair Professor, Fox School of Business, Temple University, USA
Inder Singh Namdhari - 1st Speaker of the Jharkhand Assembly and also a M.P from Chatra, Jharkhand
B. S. Sahay - Director of the Indian Institute of Management Jammu and former Director of the Indian Institute of Management Raipur

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "College History". BIT Sindri. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
^ "College Name History". BIT Sindri Alumni. Retrieved 28 May 2018.

[about-1] "College History". BIT Sindri. Retrieved 13 June 2017.

[College_name_hist-2] "College Name History". BIT Sindri Alumni. Retrieved 28 May 2018.

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